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Hello, hello!

Challenge #1

In your own space, introduce yourself!

I've got little posts on different journals all over, but here's a good summary of who I am and what I'm into:

In short, I'm Maxime! I'm 21 and I live on the East Coast. I'm really into punk music and metal music and cute stories where characters cuddle.

As far as fandoms go, I'm currently into The Penumbra Podcast, Lost, Firefly, Star Wars, the Dragon Prince, Image Comics (Snotgirl, Unnatural), DC Comics (Titans 2016, Deathstroke 2016, Batfam, ALL the Robins), and all sorts of sci-fi! I flit in and out of anime fandoms like Dangan Ronpa and Beastars.

Come say hi! I'm really quite nice!

Challenge #2

In your own space, talk about your fannish history.

I discovered fandom back in middle school when a friend introduced me to Twilight fanfiction, and I've been hooked ever since. I've always held a distinction between the members of a fandom and the content of a fandom. I was bad at participating. As my fannish interest pushed me towards Tumblr (which was pretty popular in 2013-ish, when I really started exploring), a lot of the negative content, fighting, callouts, shaming, and bashing made me do a QUICK one-eighty out of that world. I learned to enjoy content from afar. I would like posts, but I would never reblog/share or comment. In short, I've been socialized to be terrified of being even mildly controversial in my fannish postings, so I stuck to being as PG as possible and never giving my opinion too much.

Twilight and middle school cartoon fandoms (2011)
Early anime fandoms, Black Butler, - 8th/9th grade (2012/2013)
Second wave anime fandoms Attack on Titan, Haikyuu, Kuroko no Basket (2014-2017)
Dangan Ronpa (2013 - now-ish)
Fandoms featuring people with real faces, starting with Shameless (2016 - now)

I's wild; I didn't get out of my anime interests and into shows/movies in a fannish until college! Up until then, I always thought that enjoying shows real people/faces was a little weird, haha!

Now, I want to be active as I can! I want to be over this silly fear! If it means cowering behind screenames since the persistent fear of social shaming and public humiliation has yet to go away, so be it!

I discovered RP Dreamwidth accidentally while looking for icons, and I've really enjoyed my time here! During my time in the world of fandom, I've been much more into roleplays than I have fic posting simply because I love the interactivity that comes with writing with someone else. I've been a part of a few roleplay communities here on DW, but I had to leave them once school and work became more taxing and writing wasn't as much of an priority. I'd love to return some day~

I'm late to the party but I'm here!

I haven't used this DW since probably around this time last year, but I had such a great time participating in the Snowflake Challenge and I would really love to get more involved in my fandoms moving forward! After taking a bit of a break from the fannish world for the past few years, I'd really like to go full-force in 2020. I'll chat more about my relationship with fandom in another post, but here are some of the things I'd love to see!

Challenge #6

In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, or that you'd like someone to make for you.

Since I haven't spent too much dedicated time in any of my fandoms, I'm not sure what exists and what doesn't at this point. It's a little difficult since many of my favorites are older (early to mid-2000s), so some of the content posted during that time isn't easily found. Firefly, for example, has a LOT of fanfiction posted to small fansites and dusty LiveJournal pages. It's a little far removed to me being as though I grew up in a time where all fanfiction could easily be found on FF.net, filters and all.

That being said...

1. Fanfiction recommendations!
Since a lot of what I like is buried away to find, I would love recommendations to obscure stories!

In particular, I'm looking for Lost, but it can be hard to navigate the Lost fandom since I'm only on season 3 ~~and I hear everyone dies in the end, or something.~~ Anything featuring Jack and Sawyer, or Jack/Sawyer would be a gem given how much these two fight. I love Boone and Shannon - not necessarily together - but any exploration of their messy relationship would be great.
Firefly, of course. Mal being bossy, Simon being adorable, Jayne being... Jayne. Guh, give me all of it.
The Dragon Prince has gone off the goddamn rails and I haven't had time to read any stories following the recent events. Anything aside from Callum/Rayla would be marvelous.

2. Fandom Friends!

Perhaps I spent too much time on Tumblr and Twitter where ship shaming and callout posts are simply a part of the culture, but I grew up with the mentality of content > fandom. I'd search a tag, read through some stories, and leave without ever putting in my two cents because the Tumblr fandom world is NIGHTMARISH and it always felt that very few people were interested in friendship as opposed to drama and policing others.
That said, I'd love some true friends within the fandom world without having to worry about politics and the 'cancellation culture' that's grown to be so common. I was lucky to have friends who didn't buy into it early on, but now I find myself walking on eggshells around my fandom friends lest I say the wrong thing about their series baby and ruin a friendship.

And... that's it! Friends and fanfiction will be enough to make my 2020 dazzle!

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm just super, super enthralled by Firefly right now (and super, super late to this challenge but, you know, it's all good). It's tragic—the show has been off the air for well over a decade now, going on two! Even though the movie wrapped everything up nicely—or, at least I thought it did—I still find myself craving new episodes. (New rule, Afi. Don't fall in love with a dead series [again]. You'll only break your heart.)

The scenes I'm really fond of, I can't seem to find in clip form on YouTube. Surprising, I found full length episodes posted? Which would have been great to know back when I was scouring the internet for episodes after they took the series off of Netflix, but I digress. Since this show is older, a lot of the content I'm finding for this show feels... dated. Fanvids, songfics, those complications where folks chop a bunch of scenes together and play some music overtop of it all. I have nothing against these medias at all, but they do feel like a slice of fandom past as I can't say the last time I've seen something similar in more contemporary fandoms—even if they exist, I don't think they're as common. A lot of the lingo I'm finding within the snippets of the fandom that I'm coming across feel dated as well, which is surprising to me? I never really considered that fandoms age, but they most CERTAINLY do. The age of lemons, limes, 'slash-fic', all feel like so long ago, and yet these terms are all alive and well within this bubble of time that is the height of the Firefly fandom circa 2003. (Fifteen years is a LONG time; I just hadn't realized just how long?)

Anyhow, let's look at my favorite scenes (that I could find).

"firefly river fixes the bible" (Watch on YouTube)

I like this scene because I love River. She's grown on me SO much in these past few weeks! River is complicated and well-meaning and I feel like we really see her struggle as she fights against her mind and body and her struggle to return to her old self, if that's even possible. Because her character can be so weighed down in negativity and difficulty, I love that Firefly gives us scenes like this, where River is just as loopy and incoherent as ever, but you can just tell she's doing things with good intentions. Like, yes, ripping up Bibles is bad. But you know she's not doing it with any ill-intentions.

And she's so intelligent! You can just see the gears in her mind spinning as she's thinking this all through, right down to her favoritism of prime numbers.

"Firefly Episode 6 Our Mrs Reynolds" (Watch on YouTube)

( Couldn't find just this scene clipped, so here's the entire episode. Thanks, YouTube. For the scene I'm talking about, hop to 6:00 - 9:20. )

Another of my favorite scenes (and episodes!) is Our Mrs. Reynolds, particularly the early scenes in which Mal is first introduced to the idea of having accidentally married a girl one night at shindig. The reactions from everyone in the crew are absolutely priceless, and these three minutes alone show SO MUCH of each of the character's personalities. The teasing, the banter, the GLARES from Inara. This is another one of the more silly scenes, not as angsty or heart-wrenching as other moments in the series, but I love it just because everyone is just so... unique? Even without having seen any other episodes of the show, I feel that you get such a strong sense of who's who in this moment. The character relations in this show are so well thought-out, I swear, I couldn't love this series more if I tried.

Also? Accidentally marrying Joan Harris from Mad Men? I love the actress here, and she does such a great job!

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